“Or before it. I suppose that he has the law on his side as matters stand at present.”
“I suppose he has. But when he gets his order and you refuse to obey it, he will have a very good chance of getting a divorce.”
“It would be hoping too much to expect that he will do us such a good turn. So then we shall be the same as before.”
“That’s what I have been thinking; but I’ve also been thinking that if you made an application to have your marriage to him annulled, the chances are greatly in favour of your having that application granted.”
“Jack, you are talking like a lawyer. I did not know that you could give an opinion on these points so definitely.”
“I only speak as a layman, from my recollection of certain cases that have appeared from time to time in the papers. I may be all wrong—remember that. We may have to fall back upon something that Captain Lyman knows, and try for a divorce.”
“That was why you made that shot which showed your knowledge of men such as he is.”
“I confess that I hoped to get him to commit himself.”
“And he did.”
“Yes; but unfortunately his doing so will not count for anything in a court of law. We shall have to produce evidence as to the woman—perhaps even the woman herself. If we find that, immediately after leaving gaol he went off to her and deserted you—the court would place great stress upon his desertion of you—we might have a very good chance of getting a divorce.”